sunrat wrote:I just tried to go to http://deb.debian.org/debian in browser and got 404 Not Found error. However when I checked my own default sources.list (in sid) it has a trailing slash after the url, and this works. Try modifying your sources to add this eg:

The OP in that thread was unable to update, and had no trailing slash in his self-edited sources.list although that conforms with the wiki - https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesListCould a few other people please check this to see if the wiki needs edit?

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This is indeed very strange because I did a copy & paste of the same repos from the debian wiki and they worked fine, just had a little issue with the GPG keys and apt-get refused to install anything until I ran these commands "rm /etc/apt/trusted.gpg" and "apt-key update" that Bulkley posted in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=130558&p=650785#p650785 After that apt-get worked fine.

If I click on the first and second url it fails with an 404 error, if I click on the third url "security.debian" it works an redirects me to a debian webpage, however if I run an "apt-get update" it works, here's the output from yesterday:

I don't have a horse in this race - no Stretch install and no wiki login, but it appeared to be an anomaly in the thread I linked.I guess the default sources created during installation must be correct or we'd have a torrent of threads about it. Only the user-created sources entries following the wiki may be a possible problem.

@eor2004 - post your sources.list or inxi -r please.

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FYI: I have a secondary PC that I upgraded from jessie to stretch, didn't have a problem with the GPG keys and the default repos unlike with this fresh debian stretch install, I think that maybe for stretch the debian devs changed something in the way the gpg keys and the repos works, who knows!

These are the repos I was using before changing the name from jessie to stretch and upgrading my secondary PC:

eor2004 wrote:FYI: I have a secondary PC that I upgraded from jessie to stretch, didn't have a problem with the GPG keys and the default repos unlike with this fresh debian stretch install, I think that maybe for stretch the debian devs changed something in the way the gpg keys and the repos works, who knows!

Who knows indeed. It seems to consistently 404 in browser without a trailing slash, but works with apt. Dr. Watson, I believe the trail has gone cold. Holmes exits to indulge alternative pastime...

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Thanks, it does appear some kind of edit, and perhaps some additional explanationis needed. Hopefully later today someone works on it, I don't feel confident enough my self,so I put in a request for someone to take a look,..

The key point, I think, is that there is no earthly reason for the copy-and-paste exemplars to be different from all other exemplars in and across multiple Wiki pages. The difference is noticeable (obviously, since it was noticed) and at best it leaves newbies wondering about the rationale behind the difference.

At worst, it leaves newbies (or even us not-so-newbies) confused because the "same" URL succeeds or fails based on the user agent used to fetch it. That's not how URLs are "supposed" to work.

dasein wrote:The key point, I think, is that there is no earthly reason for the copy-and-paste exemplars to be different from all other exemplars in and across multiple Wiki pages. The difference is noticeable (obviously, since it was noticed) and at best it leaves newbies wondering about the rationale behind the difference.

At worst, it leaves newbies (or even us not-so-newbies) confused because the "same" URL succeeds or fails based on the user agent used to fetch it. That's not how URLs are "supposed" to work.

Some knucklehead ( see here why it is a bad idea ) almost had to have set it up this way intentionally, and only on that particular repo URL to boot. HTTP://ftp.us.debian.org/debian still redirects to the directory as expected.

If anything a bug should be filed against the repo itself for having mangled the mod_dir options of its Apache config ( Apache Server at deb.debian.org Port 80 ).

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